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Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct is an open-weight model from Alibaba, released Jul 21, 2025. It ranks #122 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1419. It costs $0.09 per million input tokens and $0.55 per million output tokens, with a 256K-token context window.

LMArena text1419−1 in 30 days
Rank#122/351
95% interval1417–1422
Votes98.1K
Developer
Alibaba Qwen
Released
Jul 21, 2025
Context window
256K
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$0.09 / $0.55
Weights
Open · Apache 2.0
Inputs
Text
Reasoning
No
Tool use
Yes
Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
139.4K
Hugging Face likes
813
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct, LMArena text rating over time
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LatestQwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct 1419

The rating LMArena published at each update since Aug 1, 2025. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

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TextLMArena1419122 / 35198.1K
CodingLMArena1445112 / 34621.7K
MathLMArena143299 / 3396.1K
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Instruction followingLMArena1408111 / 35127.8K
Hard promptsLMArena1433106 / 35153.5K
Multi-turnLMArena1432100 / 34917K
Long queriesLMArena1426101 / 33027.1K
ExpertLMArena144295 / 3056.5K
Legal and governmentIndustries1428113 / 3256.6K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries144585 / 3255.9K
Business and financeIndustries1418104 / 34418.3K
ChineseLanguages146598 / 3287.3K
SpanishLanguages1430101 / 2492.9K
GermanLanguages143280 / 2611.8K
FrenchLanguages144598 / 2522.2K
JapaneseLanguages139977 / 2361.4K

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.

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Alibaba Qwen

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team releases a broad family of open-weight models, from small to frontier scale. Founded 2023 (Qwen), based in Hangzhou. qwenlm.github.io

Questions

Who makes Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct?

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct is made by Alibaba Qwen, founded 2023 (Qwen) and based in Hangzhou.

How much does Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct cost?

$0.09 per million input tokens and $0.55 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct’s context window?

256K tokens (262,144).

How does Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct rank?

#122 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1419 (95% interval 1417–1422) from 98,096 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct open source?

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct has open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, downloadable from Hugging Face (Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507).

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